Tag: works
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Follow the Evidence
14What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? –James 2 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance… (Luke 3:8a) Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these,…
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Mercy Required
77Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.–Psalm 119 There is a tension with the law of God. Paul summed it up well. What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the…
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No Self-Salvation
1Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.4Then they said,…
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No Other Gospel
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach…
Joel M Bradshaw 